Providers offer free osteoporosis program

Special to The Record

Published Thursday, September 04, 2008

"Osteoporosis and YouInformation is Power" will be the theme at 3:30 p.m. Sept. 11, when BayView Home Health and St. Augustine Shores Recreation Association present a free program on osteoporosis. It will be at the Riverview Club, 790 Christina Drive, St. Augustine Shores.

Osteoporosis is a debilitating disease in which bones become fragile and are more likely to break.

The National Osteoporosis Foundation advises that 10 million Americans have osteoporosis, and 34 million more have low bone mass, placing them at increased risk for developing this disease. Some 80 percent of those with osteoporosis are women.

The program will discuss the diagnosis of osteoporosis, nutrition, safe exercises, contraindications of exercise and activities with this disease process.